Ireland. So long as the Irish paupers find that they can improve their
condition by coming to England, thither they will come. At this moment,
five or six millions of beggars are all of them turning their eyes, and
many of them directing their steps to this land of promise! The locusts
that "will eat up every blade of grass, and every green thing," are
already on the wing.--_Edin. Rev._

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According to the parliamentary returns of 1815, the number of paupers
receiving parochial relief in England amounts to 895,336, in a
population of 11,360,505, or about one-twelfth of the whole community.

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There are many on the continent who might far better have been treading
their turnip-fields, or superintending their warehouses at home, than
traversing the Alps, criticising the Pantheon, or loitering through the
galleries of the Vatican.

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Twenty years ago there were at Saffet and at Jerusalem but a small
number of Polish Jews--some few hundreds at the most; there are now, at
the very least, 10,000.

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Bishop Watson compares a geologist to a gnat mounted on an elephant, and
laying down theories as to the whole internal structure of the vast